[Mark Henry]

I'm aircooled through and through so it's a 914 for me. I've driven my buddies Boxster S enough to know I don't want one. It's a nice car, it just doesn't do anything for me. If I want comfort I'll drive my winter SUV.

That said I've never driven stock cars for long, my 1967 bug has a 180hp 2.6L FI, nickies engine with a Porsche 901 (911) trans. My '67 bus has a 110hp Gene Berg engine.
I'm still working on the 914 engine, it had a stock 1.8 that was immediately replaced with a performance FI engine, Now it is getting a 3.0/6 twinplug, RSR mahle pistons, WEB hot street cam, webers, etc
I love loud and stinky as long as it goes like stink.

None of this is cheap but with a couple of trades and doing all the machine work myself I built the 914/6 engine for around 10K. It's a conversion but once done, in local dollars, it's likely a close to $40K car.
I paid $5K for the car back in 2001, it was close to mint condition, even then the insurance appraiser wouldn't appraise it for less than $11K . Much better investment than my bug with the big engine.